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Westminster Hall
Easter and Christian Culture - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) He was the founder of the all-party parliamentary arts and heritage group. - Speech Link
2: Felicity Buchan (Con - Kensington) setting aside one day of each week to rest and worship; and it has long inspired our artists, composers, writers - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Rosie Winterton (Lab - Doncaster Central) It is very difficult for the Hansard writers to follow if we veer off into private conversations. - Speech Link
2: Rachel Maclean (Con - Redditch) That will be massively welcomed in our area, where the arts play a huge part in our local life. - Speech Link
3: Matt Western (Lab - Warwick and Leamington) Meanwhile, Mayor Andy Street is presiding over the worst-performing region for growth in the United Kingdom - Speech Link
4: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con - The Cotswolds) review its very limited 2020 forecast and its own figures, with no reference to how badly the UK is performing - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Media Bill
2nd reading - Wed 28 Feb 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) time promoting their strengths internationally and celebrating their role in helping make the UK the arts - Speech Link
2: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) silence is evidence that a narrowing of the list will likely result in a downgrading of religious, arts - Speech Link
3: Viscount Colville of Culross (XB - Excepted Hereditary) vision statement that talks of elevating unheard voices from diverse communities, to encourage emerging writers - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bull (XB - Life peer) to the “supporting and stimulating” of diverse cultural activity through the treatment of visual and performing - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Warsi (Con - Life peer) by Jewish youth organisations such as the Union of Jewish Students and Jewish human rights groups, writers - Speech Link
2: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) bodies.Beyond a concern about the threat to the autonomy of, for example, universities, councils and arts - Speech Link
3: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) This ban will ensure that any public authority, including universities in scope of the Bill performing - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Arts - Thu 01 Feb 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Rebuck (Lab - Life peer) British writers are some of the top-grossing global film franchises of all time: think of JRR Tolkien - Speech Link
2: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) Now it is full of creatives, arthouses, art entrepreneurs, TV production companies, musicians, writers - Speech Link
3: Lord Howarth of Newport (Lab - Life peer) Activities can include visual and performing arts, crafts, literature, cooking, and creative activities - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hooper (Con - Life peer) Such a move would be cheered across the performing arts sectors. Can my noble friend give me hope? - Speech Link
5: Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury (LD - Life peer) It was an artist who inspired a gallery, and a performing arts centre with a great building and with - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Media Bill
Report stage - Tue 30 Jan 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Rosie Winterton (Lab - Doncaster Central) considers necessary to support further devolution of broadcasting policy to the Welsh Government.(3) In performing - Speech Link
2: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) She said:“In 2003 ITV successfully lobbied Ofcom for its PSB quotas for arts and religious content to - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Autumn Statement 2023 - Wed 29 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Featherstone (LD - Life peer) museums and galleries tax relief being made permanent.Moving from tax relief to national insurance, the Writers - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Tue 14 Nov 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) Many artists feel threatened, and this was the root cause of the recent Hollywood writers’ and actors - Speech Link
2: Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie (Con - Life peer) successful homes in Scotland—Channel 4 and the BBC both operate from Glasgow, alongside the strongly performing - Speech Link
3: Lord Chartres (XB - Life peer) We grow by self-giving, not by performing on platforms. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Thornton (Lab - Life peer) We need to celebrate local creative arts venues. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Creative Industries (Communications and Digital Committee Report) - Fri 07 Jul 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury (LDEM - Life peer) Compared to 2022, entries at GCSE have fallen dramatically in art and design, drama, music and performing - Speech Link
2: Lord Berkeley of Knighton (CB - Life peer) Thanks to the input principally of Malcolm Bradbury, among others, it has produced writers such as Angela - Speech Link
3: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (LAB - Life peer) who I see is no longer in his place, for using the term “philistinism”, because many more aspiring writers - Speech Link
4: Earl of Clancarty (CB - Excepted Hereditary) All these technical jobs are much-needed skills in theatre and the performing arts in general, but it - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Arts and Creative Industries: Freelancers and Self-employed Workers - Thu 15 Jun 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Earl of Clancarty (CB - Excepted Hereditary) Council says that:“Without talented artists, technicians, designers, curators, producers, writers and - Speech Link
2: Lord Cashman (LAB - Life peer) research has shown a worrying drop of 60% in real-term income from writing over the past 15 years for writers - Speech Link
3: Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall (LAB - Life peer) with small budgets and compete for the services of performers, directors, designers, stage managers, writers - Speech Link